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Plymouth Argyle

vs Sheffield Wednesday. Sky Bet Championship.

3: 00pm, Saturday 8th March 2025.

Home Park Attendance: Attendance16, 981.

Report and free match highlights from the Sky Bet Championship match between Plymouth Argyle and Sheffield Wednesday at Home Park on Saturday; Callum Paterson and Djeidi Gassama on target as Danny Rohl's Owls seal emphatic win. Saturday 8 March 2025 18: 44, UK Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Sheffield Wednesday returned to winning ways with a comfortable 3-0 Championship victory at relegation haunted Plymouth. An own goal by Nathanael Ogbeta and strikes from Callum Paterson and Djeidi Gassama enabled Wednesday to end a three-match losing streak. Basement side Plymouth have now failed to win in five league games, and this was their third defeat in a week following last week's FA Cup knockout at Manchester City and the damaging midweek loss to relegation rivals Hull. Argyle started on the front foot with makeshift striker Mustapha Bundu forcing Wednesday goalkeeper James Beadle into a diving save from his 20-yard effort in the opening minute. Bundu then teed up Nathanael Ogbeta to try his luck from the same distance on the left in the second minute, with the wing-back's shot flying wide. On-loan Leeds midfielder Darko Gyabi made it three goal attempts in three minutes as his header forced a save from Beadle, before Callum Wright headed a cross across the face of goal in the fourth minute. Wednesday's Josh Windass went close with a header from Shea Charles' 12th-minute before the visitors took a 15th-minute lead.

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Svante Ingelsson did well to keep the ball in down the left, with Argyle appealing it had gone out. The Swedish midfielder then looped a cross in over Conor Hazard in the Argyle goal and Ogbeta, under pressure from Gassama, knocked the ball over the line. Charles looked set to score when put in on goal by Windass in the 23rd minute but the attacking midfielder's first-time effort went inches wide from inside the box. Matthew Sorinola's cross from the right in the 27th minute pinballed around the Wednesday six-yard box before being headed over by Spanish central defender Julio Pleguezuelo. Wednesday surged 2-0 ahead in the 41st minute after a brilliant passing move, again involving Ingelsson. Windass dribbled in from the left wing, found Ingelsson on the byline with a neat pass and the Swede's square ball across the area was hammered home by Paterson. Argyle boss Miron Muslic made a triple half-time substitution, reintroducing fit-again striker Ryan Hardie who had scored five times in three games before suffering a back injury at Blackburn, but it had little impact. Windass was again instrumental in setting up Gassama for Wednesday's third goal in the 68th minute with a brilliant defence-splitting pass. Gassama held off substitute Victor Palsson before sending an unstoppable low angled drive from the right past Hazard. Hazard made a superb 77th-minute save with his outstretched leg to deny substitute Michael Smith as he cut in from left and looked set to score. Smith missed a golden opportunity to make it 4-0 in the third minute of stoppage time but fired wide from 12 yards after latching on to Pol Valentin's pinpoint cross. Plymouth's Miron Muslic: "I think we started well. In the first 10 to 12 minutes we showed desire, showing Home Park we are ready to fight and attack. I think we created goalscoring opportunities, but we didn't take them. "The first defensive action we had resulted in a goal for them and that changed the game. Then you felt the pressure is on and we collapsed because pressure can do a lot of damage and it was unbelievably difficult for us because the momentum suddenly changed. "Simply too many players are feeling this pressure at the moment. I am taking responsibility for this performance today. "Next Wednesday (at Portsmouth) and next Saturday (home to Derby) nobody is believing in us so I think that takes a little bit of pressure off us. When we played Brentford, Liverpool and Man City (in the FA Cup) there was no pressure. "We have to get up and try again. " Sheffield Wednesday's Danny Rohl: "Except for the first five six minutes we dominated the game. The first five or six minutes they played very direct, we got through that and then we got the goal. "There were a lot of second balls, 50-50 balls, duels we had to win, and we also had long balls to deal with. The back four and back five did a good job today. "I think in the end we could have scored four or five goals. All-in-all I am very pleased, three points, three goals and a clean sheet. "We are on 48 points now I think that is a good situation. It's important now to keep the momentum going. Momentum is important. " The £250, 000 is up for grabs with Super 6, and as always it is completely free to play. Entries by 3pm Saturday.

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